Wednesday-1/30/19

Intermediate & Advanced Fashion

Students continue to work on their African inspired project. I walk around to observe students work and offer my help if they need it. One student needed help editing the hands on her sketches. As I helped her re-sketch, I taught her a technique that I learned when drawing hands on the female figure. I also went around checking to make sure students had seamlines where needed as requested by the classroom teacher. Whenever, a student raised their hand in need of assistance, I came around to help.  One student needed suggestions about using a Micron-pen to outline her sketches. I gave her some tips and recommended a fashion illustrator to follow on instagram who has excellent examples of using dark emphasis outlines.

 

Fashion/Art Club

Students begin creating Valentine’s Day cards for fundraiser. Each student is given a blank card to start from. Supplies provided for use in creating cards were buttons, variety of heart shaped foam cut outs, glue, markers, and V-day stickers.  There were some unfinished cards from the previous years that were put out if students wanted to add to them and get them completed instead of starting a blank one. I suggested to some students a couple of ways they can contribute to the unfinished ones.

Tuesday-1/29/19

Intermediate & Advanced Fashion

Students continue to work on their African inspired project. I walk around to observe students work and offer my help if they need it. One student asked me for advisement on color usage in her project. She was unsure of what colors to use for the solid garments in her outfit designs. I recommended she only stick to the colors in her textile design/print and not to add any additional colors to her project.  Therefore, she can select colors from her print to use on the solid top or the shoes. After speaking to her, she seemed to have a clearer idea and direction of what she wanted to do in terms of rendering her outfits.

Monday-1/28/19

Intermediate & Advanced Fashion

Today I observed as the student’s continued working on their African Inspired garment designs.  The teacher showed and explained to me the criteria of the project. Each student was to create an African inspired textile and incorporate it into their designs. The students were required to create 2 full garment designs (male or female) and render using learned marker techniques. I was informed that the class was an integration of Intermediate and Advanced Fashion Design students therefore, some students may be at a higher level than others in terms of their use of techniques, etc. I walked around the room to get familiar with the project the students were working on and also observed how the teacher walked around to work with each student one on one. As the students worked, the teacher played a designer fashion show on the smartboard to enhance the classroom creativity and environment.